How good is gimp compared to photoshop?
No.
Well I only use gimp and I can do some pretty good things.
photoshop cs2 is free
i know that, but is it legal to download it?
what are you talking about? you can still buy it fullyhttp://shop.adobe.com/store/adbehme/en_IE/pd/ProductID.249257900/Currency.USD
i can do some cool stuff with paint.NET,
i can do some cool stuff with paint.NET, give me an image and what to do and some time and i could do something as cool as photoshop
I've never used paint.NET, I've heard some stuff about it but not much. Is it a decent program? It sounds like it's better at digital painting that Gimp is. Gimp can't support digital painting for it's life. It's not efficient enough.
Dwarf! Make some more awesomeness!
I'm working on it.